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Yoomi Kim - Midwife

Midwifery Service

Description

  • Graduated AUT Bachelor Health Science Midiwfery
  • Registered midwife since 2006
  • 2006-2010 worked at Auckland City Hospital (completed internship and was a permanent core midwife at delivery suite). Had experience with normal and complicated cases
  • Since 2010 have worked as an independent midiwfe 
  • Prefer water birth (but flexible, depending on women's choices)

Midwives

How do I access this service?

Contact us

Please contact me as soon as you know you are pregnant so that we can arrange a time to meet and discuss the requirements you have of an LMC and develop a birth care plan.

Fees and Charges Description

free

Languages Spoken

English, Korean

Birthing Facilities Midwife/s Attend

Waitemata DHB Maternity Services - North Shore Hospital

Click on the following link for more information on Waitemata DHB Maternity Services - North Shore Hospital.

Services Provided

Labour and birth care

Your midwife will support and care for you during your labour and will help deliver your baby / pēpi.

Your midwife will support and care for you during your labour and will help deliver your baby / pēpi.

Pregnancy care

Your midwife will provide pregnancy care including regular checkups, organising any tests as required and planning your labour plan. Pregnancy care is free for New Zealand citizens and permanent residents. For more information view the New Zealand Government website.

Your midwife will provide pregnancy care including regular checkups, organising any tests as required and planning your labour plan. Pregnancy care is free for New Zealand citizens and permanent residents. For more information view the New Zealand Government website.

Home visits from a midwife (from birth to age 4 - 6 weeks)

Your midwife will provide weekly home visits from after you give birth to when your baby / pēpi is 4-6 weeks old. Your midwife will provide support, assist with breastfeeding and monitor your baby’s growth and development.

Your midwife will provide weekly home visits from after you give birth to when your baby / pēpi is 4-6 weeks old. Your midwife will provide support, assist with breastfeeding and monitor your baby’s growth and development.

Ongoing care for you and your baby

Your midwife will help connect you with a Well Child/Tamariki Ora service once your baby / pēpi is 6 weeks old. Well Child/Tamariki Ora services provide free health checks for your tamariki from 6 weeks old to 5 years. It is also important to register your baby with a local GP for ongoing medical care and to organise immunisations. All babies born in New Zealand are registered with the National Immunisation Register.

Your midwife will help connect you with a Well Child/Tamariki Ora service once your baby / pēpi is 6 weeks old. Well Child/Tamariki Ora services provide free health checks for your tamariki from 6 weeks old to 5 years.

It is also important to register your baby with a local GP for ongoing medical care and to organise immunisations. All babies born in New Zealand are registered with the National Immunisation Register.

Parking

There is plenty of free parking.

Contact Details

Please call me any time - 24 hours if an emergency (e.g. bleeding, reduced baby movements, meconeum stained liquour, agitated or floppy, quiet baby etc). 
Otherwise try to contact me during normal working days/hours.
Preferably send me a text or email as well and I will get back to you as soon as possible. 

Unit 13, 120 Sunnynook Road
Sunnynook
Auckland
Auckland 0620

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Street Address

Unit 13, 120 Sunnynook Road
Sunnynook
Auckland
Auckland 0620

Postal Address

PO Box 334029
Sunnynook
Auckland 0743

This page was last updated at 10:46AM on January 24, 2024. This information is reviewed and edited by Yoomi Kim - Midwife.